A New Front Door for ESC Region 12
New Addition Opened to the Public on January 3
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WACO, TEXAS - As the Education Service
Center (ESC) Region 12 celebrates its 40th year anniversary,
it is pleased to announce the completion of its 20,000
square foot expansion. The center has been living
with growing pains for several years and often houses
workshops at offsite locations. The facility, located
at 2101 W. Loop 340 has a large new entrance facing
Highway 6 and Bagby Avenue. As of Jan. 3, participants
may enter the building at the new entrance.
The expansion has eight meeting rooms,
four of which can be combined into one large room
to accommodate up to 400 people. One room is a large
computer lab and another is devoted to the Texas
Education Telecommunications Network (TETN), where
many educators meet to attend statewide and regional
events made available through videoconferencing technologies.
The center’s human resource department, business
office and alternative teacher certification program
is now located in the new building.
"We’re excited that the expansion
is complete as we can now offer more training opportunities
to Central Texas educators,” said Tom Norris,
executive director for ESC Region 12.
On any given week, the center holds
dozens of trainings which attract hundreds and sometimes
thousands of area educators to the center. In the
last year alone, the center trained or delivered
services to more than 35,000 educators, parents and
students. In addition to the building expansion,
a new parking lot was built behind the service center
to accommodate the increased parking needs.
Established in 1967 by the Texas Legislature,
ESC Region 12 is one of 20 centers throughout Texas.
The center provides professional training and technical
assistance for the purpose of improving student performance
for all students. Based in Waco, with offices in
Corsicana, Goldthwaite, Hillsboro, Nolanville and
Teague, the ESC Region 12’s service area includes
Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Freestone, Hamilton,
Hill, Lampasas, Limestone, Mills, McLennan and Navarro
counties.
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